Phil hit the nail on the head - there is no consensus. In general I would suggest getting good budget versions of each, and trying it. If you can't tell the difference, then your DAC is presumably rejecting jitter or whatever sufficiently well that spending more will be pointless. If you can tell the difference, and have a preference, then you know where to spend your money.
It seems reasonable to posit that the differences are very small - more obvious differences should give rise to less debate. Actually, no, this is the audiophile forum ;) For specific recs for good budget coax cables, try Blue Jeans http://www.bluejeanscable.com/ or good ebay sellers like these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Belden-1694a-Canare-1mt-Digital-coax_W0QQitemZ170005831827QQihZ007QQcategoryZ116850QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem Sorry I don't have any good recs for decent toslink (optical) vendors, but they are available very cheaply. Of course, you can also get into the glass vs plastic debate :) Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38188 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
